Our second meeting with the caseworker
* maybe if I visualize the waters of Playa washing over me I can chill out a little!
Jeff and I needed to give our caseworker the $685.00 made out to Homeland Security (for the 1-600?) and we also were a little lost about what was going on in the process, so we met again at Borders. I was on Spring Break so we met in the middle of the day.
We thought she had all the documents that she needed, but of course that was not the case. She needed a ton of things that were all sitting on our kitchen table that I thought only our agency needed. Jeff also had not completed all the required income/financial paperwork she needs and has to get some more things notarized.
I was soooooo frustrated when she told us that our Dossier would not be ready until mid summer , I think!!! I know that we have wasted time and if I could be home in the day I could be more efficient with this process. Jeff is just NOT in the kind of HURRY that I am, and it makes me sooooo extremely frustrated. It breaks my heart to read about all the families who are in China right now meeting their daughters for the first time, and I just feel like we’ll never get to that point.
Oh, another thing we have to do Monday is get our surgeon to write and notarize a letter for each of us saying that the Lap-Band surgeries we had years ago will not affect our ability to be great parents. Will it ever end???
So, to help ease the frustration I am feeling with this long process I went online and ordered some more clothes for our future little fashionista. -and it kind of helps :)
Friday, March 17th, 2006